Making rain count.

ONE SENSOR AT A TIME.

OUR PRODUCT

Disdro produces a maintenance free rain gauge.

Access or forward your data through our cloud interface.

Reliable rain gauges

Disdro's robust rain gauge is an acoustic disdrometer designed to require zero maintenance. This cuts down on your operating costs and enables you to build denser sensor networks for more fine-grained data collection. Our sensors will not only give you rain intensity but also drop-size distributions.

No maintenance required

Contrary to the most commonly used automated rain gauges on the market, Disdro's acoustic rain gauge does not require regular cleaning and maintenance.

Real-time and cost-effective rain data

The sensor uploads the data to our secure cloud platform where you can access and forward your data. Our clients work in widely different industries, varying from Meteorological research, Government, Agriculture, Transportation and Power.

Hail sensor

The hail sensor distinguishes between raindrops and hailstones for a given drop size distribution. Especially interesting for crop damage monitoring.

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PROJECTS

Projects where Disdro's sensors are currently being used.

DRIPS 2018 - 2019

Digital Rain IoT Platform via Satellite

The Netherlands’ Small and Medium Enterprises Innovation (MIT) program rewarded the consortium of Fleet, FactoryLab and Disdrometrics with a grant to conduct a world-first trial to connect data from irrigation systems on the ground to nanosatellites in orbit. The Digital Rain IoT Platform via satellite (DRIPs) proposal will aim to transform agriculture through real-time tracking of weather and irrigation systems, creating potential cost savings of 10 per cent or more per year, per hectare of land.

DRIPS will create a local sensor network that will communicate with low orbiting nanosatellites though a local gateway. In regions where communication infrastructure is lacking, the system will help crop growers continuously monitor nutrients, temperature, humidity and precipitation on a low bandwidth frequency.

In DRIPS Disdrometrics is developing a sensor that can connect everywhere in the world without having to deal with local providers, it is a one stop shop.

Water used for the production of food is often related by people to irrigation, but this an incorrect picture. Most grown food is cultivated with rain. With accurate forecasts you can estimate when the best time is to sow or harvest. But if you are going to irrigate, you need to know where the water resources are and whether you can safely use the surface water. That knowledge is often missing.

Kenya is often being seen as example country an at the forefront for other surrounding African countries. If you get ground on the Kenyan market there is a good chance the product will be accepted in those surrounding countries.

With the low-costs rainsensors of Disdrometrics it is possible to get local weather forecast. Kenyan Farmers are provided with better meteorological data to improve crop yields and develop new approaches to precision farming under a changing climate.

Together with our Kenyan partners we want to support farmers to pro-actively manage their farm, using less water while achieving higher yield (up to 26%). With local soil moisture, local rainfall and actual crop water consumption known, irrigation requirements are calculated with a substantially higher local accuracy then was possible before.

We finished the feasibility study in 2018 and are now starting the second stage (2019).

FloodCitiSense 2019 - 2019

citizens science

FloodCitiSense develops an urban pluvial flood early warning service for, but also by citizens and city authorities. This service will reduce the vulnerability of urban areas and citizens to pluvial floods, which occur when heavy rainfall exceeds the capacity of the urban drainage system.

Due to their fast onset and localized nature, pluvial floods cause significant damage to the urban environment and are challenging to manage. The FloodCitiSense project aims at integrating crowdsourced hydrological data, collaboratively monitored by local stakeholders, including citizens, making use of low-cost sensors and web-based technologies, into a flood early warning system. Citizens in Brussels, Rotterdam and Birmingham will be actively involved in the monitoring of rainfall and pluvial flooding by assembling their own rain sensor that Disdrometricsas partner of FloodCitiSense creates for them.

TAHMO 2017 - present

"The idea behind this project is to build a dense network of hydro-meteorological monitoring stations in sub-Saharan Africa. The data will be combined with models and satellite observations to obtain a very complete insight in the distribution of water and energy stocks and fluxes."

Myanmar Partners for Water 2017 - 2018

Leapfrogging Delta Management in Myanmar

Due to the need for more smart data measurements and analyses to be able to adequately choose the most sustainable solutions for water and resource management the government of Myanmar is working together with TU Delft and the partners of VPdelta to jointly develop smart ways to collect these data. The project is funded under the Partners for Water program by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).

The main aim is to extend the current work in the Bago-Sittaung to the whole Ayeyarwady Delta to test and demonstrate innovative smart information solutions in the Delta and disseminate the results widely. Coalitions are created around specific information products (e.g. rainfall, erosion, subsidence). In each coalition, partners work on innovative monitoring: to combine remote sensing, ground data collection with modelling techniques.

The results of the project will be presented in an online platform to disseminate the products and services to a local and international audience. Throughout the entire project Dutch and Myanmar experts and young professionals will work together (learning-by-doing) and dissemination and training will be organized.

Too much water in the soil will wash away nutrients. Too little water will harm crop growth.

Monitoring soil moisture allows farmers to make effective irrigation decisions. However, current sensors are wired and not remote, making them unusable to monitor multiple points in outdoor farm fields. For ‘Broere Beregening’ we installed a low-cost, wireless and remote system that controls the valves in the fields of the farmers.

WeSenseIt 2013 - 2017

Mission: Involve citizens in collecting life saving data

Trans-Europe

"Over the next 70 years there will be a doubling in both the number of people affected by flooding each year (to 0.5-0.8 million) and annual damages increasing to 7.7-15 billion €. WeSenseIt will enable citizens to take a major role in prevention of flooding." This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no FP7/2007-2013-308429.